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Player Information
Name: Annwyd
Personal Journal: annwyd
Contact Info: Annwyd Hates You [AIM]
Other Characters: Not applicable.
Character Information
Name: Katniss Everdeen
Source Canon: The Hunger Games trilogy of books
Age: 17
Role In Canon: Protagonist of all three books.
Justification: Not applicable.
History: Here at the Hunger Games wikia. Katniss is going to be arriving from just after she explodes the arena near the end of Catching Fire.
Personality:
Katniss Everdeen is a tightly wound bundle of paradoxes. She's hard and tough as steel but vulnerable and fragile. She's fiercely survival-oriented but peculiarly dependent. She's spontaneous but calculating. She's cold and reluctant to open up, but also extraordinarily capable of empathizing with others. And all this is in one seventeen-year-old girl who's already been through far too much.
The thing to remember is that she doesn't realize most of this. She doesn't think of herself as anything special: just a girl trying to survive in a world set against her, often doing callous or selfish things in the process. She can't see the intensity she burns with in other people's eyes. All she can see is her flaws, her failures, and the people she needs to protect. She's spent so long locked into a self-deprecating survival mode that she doesn't know how to get past it anymore. So here are the things she doesn't see.
She doesn't see how much she needs other people. She sees herself as self-reliant, alone, a solitary survivor who will do anything to keep herself alive. But the truth is, her world revolves around other people, and she needs them to survive as much as or more than they need her. She needs people to devote herself to protecting, and she needs people to remind her that life is worth living. And just like she doesn't see how much other people affect her, she doesn't see how much she affects them. She doesn't see her spontaneous, intense charisma, or the passion with which she can devote herself to something. She doesn't really think about how insight and dramatic gestures can tumble from her without her really thinking about them. Instead, she sees only the girl who grimly calculates what she must do to survive. That's a part of her, too, but it's not everything.
Katniss is aware that she's cold and withdrawn in a lot of ways. After all, she forced herself to be in order to survive after her father's death. She knows she's no good at handling emotions most of the time, that she runs away when matters of the heart frighten or overwhelm her. She knows she holds grudges unfairly at times, even if she may not realize it when it's happening. What she doesn't get at all is that underneath all this brokenness is someone who's innately in tune with the emotions of others if not those of herself. Katniss has an empathic streak far more intense and deep than most people's. She can put herself in another person's shoes whether she wants to or not. Sometimes, her tendency to empathize with others is overwhelming, which is why she's tried so hard to shut it off. But it's still there. It's carried her through the brutality of the Games with her heart intact, if tattered.
Oh, she sees the surface of her that's toughened and emotionally callused, all right. She also sees how that surface extends down into her core, how she's a hunter and fighter at heart. She sees it so well that she's convinced herself that's all she is. But it's not. Katniss is a hero. She fights hard for the people she cares about and what she believes in, and she responds to other people's pain even if she doesn't always know what to do with it. But she's also a broken young woman, angry at the world and at the people in it who've betrayed and hurt her. So she covers her vulnerability up with cold toughness, detaches herself from her own emotions, and watches it all from under the cover of a slightly deadpan, cynical view of the world. But even if she doesn't see herself that way, the hero is still there.
Abilities: Nothing beyond the human norm.
Sample:
[ voice ]
...tried to make snares from you, but listen to me anyway.
Good...plant. I guess--thank you.
[ video ]
[Katniss appears in the mirror, serious-faced as ever and holding up an empty snare made of vines (that aren't the Vine).]
The rabbits are smarter than they look. They avoided all the snares I set out.
...I don't want to waste any arrows on them when there's easier food to get in the orchard.
[She makes the sudden, dark scowl of someone who knows she's obeying orders and hates it.]
So the next time I catch one chewing on my bow, I'm taking it to the nearest stream and drowning it by hand. Or breaking its--
[The video cuts off. Apparently the Vine doesn't like her enough yet to record her full message.]
Additional sample: Here on dear_mun.
Name: Annwyd
Personal Journal: annwyd
Contact Info: Annwyd Hates You [AIM]
Other Characters: Not applicable.
Character Information
Name: Katniss Everdeen
Source Canon: The Hunger Games trilogy of books
Age: 17
Role In Canon: Protagonist of all three books.
Justification: Not applicable.
History: Here at the Hunger Games wikia. Katniss is going to be arriving from just after she explodes the arena near the end of Catching Fire.
Personality:
Katniss Everdeen is a tightly wound bundle of paradoxes. She's hard and tough as steel but vulnerable and fragile. She's fiercely survival-oriented but peculiarly dependent. She's spontaneous but calculating. She's cold and reluctant to open up, but also extraordinarily capable of empathizing with others. And all this is in one seventeen-year-old girl who's already been through far too much.
The thing to remember is that she doesn't realize most of this. She doesn't think of herself as anything special: just a girl trying to survive in a world set against her, often doing callous or selfish things in the process. She can't see the intensity she burns with in other people's eyes. All she can see is her flaws, her failures, and the people she needs to protect. She's spent so long locked into a self-deprecating survival mode that she doesn't know how to get past it anymore. So here are the things she doesn't see.
She doesn't see how much she needs other people. She sees herself as self-reliant, alone, a solitary survivor who will do anything to keep herself alive. But the truth is, her world revolves around other people, and she needs them to survive as much as or more than they need her. She needs people to devote herself to protecting, and she needs people to remind her that life is worth living. And just like she doesn't see how much other people affect her, she doesn't see how much she affects them. She doesn't see her spontaneous, intense charisma, or the passion with which she can devote herself to something. She doesn't really think about how insight and dramatic gestures can tumble from her without her really thinking about them. Instead, she sees only the girl who grimly calculates what she must do to survive. That's a part of her, too, but it's not everything.
Katniss is aware that she's cold and withdrawn in a lot of ways. After all, she forced herself to be in order to survive after her father's death. She knows she's no good at handling emotions most of the time, that she runs away when matters of the heart frighten or overwhelm her. She knows she holds grudges unfairly at times, even if she may not realize it when it's happening. What she doesn't get at all is that underneath all this brokenness is someone who's innately in tune with the emotions of others if not those of herself. Katniss has an empathic streak far more intense and deep than most people's. She can put herself in another person's shoes whether she wants to or not. Sometimes, her tendency to empathize with others is overwhelming, which is why she's tried so hard to shut it off. But it's still there. It's carried her through the brutality of the Games with her heart intact, if tattered.
Oh, she sees the surface of her that's toughened and emotionally callused, all right. She also sees how that surface extends down into her core, how she's a hunter and fighter at heart. She sees it so well that she's convinced herself that's all she is. But it's not. Katniss is a hero. She fights hard for the people she cares about and what she believes in, and she responds to other people's pain even if she doesn't always know what to do with it. But she's also a broken young woman, angry at the world and at the people in it who've betrayed and hurt her. So she covers her vulnerability up with cold toughness, detaches herself from her own emotions, and watches it all from under the cover of a slightly deadpan, cynical view of the world. But even if she doesn't see herself that way, the hero is still there.
Abilities: Nothing beyond the human norm.
Sample:
[ voice ]
...tried to make snares from you, but listen to me anyway.
Good...plant. I guess--thank you.
[ video ]
[Katniss appears in the mirror, serious-faced as ever and holding up an empty snare made of vines (that aren't the Vine).]
The rabbits are smarter than they look. They avoided all the snares I set out.
...I don't want to waste any arrows on them when there's easier food to get in the orchard.
[She makes the sudden, dark scowl of someone who knows she's obeying orders and hates it.]
So the next time I catch one chewing on my bow, I'm taking it to the nearest stream and drowning it by hand. Or breaking its--
[The video cuts off. Apparently the Vine doesn't like her enough yet to record her full message.]
Additional sample: Here on dear_mun.